JACQUES PERRIN. Jacques Perrin died Thursday in Paris at the age of 80, his family announced to AFP. The actor, filmmaker and producer, who had played in “Peau d’âne” or “Le Crabe-tambour” and co-directed the documentary “The migratory people”…
Jacques Perrin died on Thursday April 21, 2022. It was his family who communicated the news of his death in Paris, at the age of 80. “The family has the immense sadness to inform you of the disappearance of the filmmaker Jacques Perrin, who died on Thursday April 21 in Paris. He passed away peacefully at the age of 80”, is it soberly written in a declaration transmitted to AFP by his son, Mathieu Simonet.
Jacques Perrin, born in Paris on July 13, 1941, appeared in more than 70 films from the 1950s. “His soft voice and his gray hair turned white were familiar to the general public, who saw him in particular at Pierre Schoendoerffer ( “The Drum Crab” in 1977, “The Honor of a Captain” in 1982) and Jacques Demy (“Les Demoiselles de Rochefort” in 1967, “Donkey Skin” in 1970)”, writes AFP again. .
Jacques Perrin actor, but not only
Jacques Perrin did not only work in front of the camera. He will also be a director and producer during his career. it is in this capacity that he will contribute to “Z” by Costa-Gavras (1968) or “Les Choristes” (2004) by his nephew Christophe Barratier. A popular success film (8.6 million admissions) in which he also played. In total, Jacques Perrin has produced some fifteen films since the end of the 1960s. He has also supported documentaries including “The Monkey People” (1989), “Microcosmos: the people of the grass” (1996) or “Himalaya : the childhood of a chef” (1999), very committed as he was to the defense of the environment. He will even put his hand to the paw, as co-director of some successes of the genre such as “Le Peuple migrateur”, devoted to birds (2001, 2.8 million spectators in France), then “Oceans” (2010, 2.9 million spectators), awarded the César for best documentary in 2011).
Jacques Perrin’s last role in the cinema will have been devoted to “Goliath”, released in March 2022. a film that echoed his environmental fights: in this thriller around pesticides, Jacques Perrin teams up with a formidable lobbyist for the phytosanitary industry, camped by Pierre Niney.
Jacques Perrin was born Jacques Simonet on July 13, 1941 in Paris. After having started on the boards, he appeared at the cinema in “The Skin of the Bear” (1957) and “The Girl with a Suitcase” (1960). He collaborated with the greatest filmmakers in the 1960s: Costa-Gavras, Chabrol, Demy, and distinguished himself in various registers (detective, musical, fantastic). He founded his own production company in 1968: Reggane Films. We see him in “Cinema Paradisio” in 1988 but he devoted himself more and more to production (“Microcosmos” in 1996) and directing (“Le Peuple migrateur” in 2001). In the 2000s, he appeared in “Le Pacte des loups” (2001), “Les Choristes” (2004) and directed “Oceans” in 2009. He contributed, as a producer and director, to several documentaries on nature, of which he was a great defender. He died on April 21, 2022, in Paris, at the age of 80.